Baseball Preview: Rush-Henrietta Royal Comets vs. Penfield Patriots
The Rush-Henrietta Royal Comets will be playing at home against the Penfield Patriots at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Rush-Henrietta has three straight wins, Penfield has ten straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Rush-Henrietta will bounce into Wednesday's game after beating Penfield, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. Rush-Henrietta sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 victory over Penfield on Monday. That's two games straight that Rush-Henrietta has won by just one run.
For Penfield's part, Corey Weiss was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he pitched 6.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off four hits. Weiss has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two walks in four consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Penfield saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Patrick Emling, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Even though they lost, Penfield didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with five strikeouts. This was only their seventh loss (out of eight games) when they post five or more strikeouts.
Rush-Henrietta's win bumped their record up to 3-8. As for Penfield, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-10.
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